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Travis County, Texas
101,267 Black residents · 7.8% of the county · ranked 7 of 254 in Texas by Black population
In Travis County, Texas, the 2020 Census counted 1.3 million people, 101,267 of them Black alone. At 7.8%, Travis County's Black share stands against the state's 12.2% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 1,290,188 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 101,267 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 7.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 7 of 254 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
Population Trend
In 2010 Travis County counted 87,308 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 101,267. The population grew by 16.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Travis County moved from 8.5% to 7.8%.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
The Record
Travis County is one of 254 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Together they hold the state's 3.6 million Black residents, and Travis County's 101,267 of them give it rank 7 of 254 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Travis County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Travis County, Texas, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Travis County page gives the frame they stand in: 1.3 million residents in all, 101,267 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.